View Single Post
  #25  
Unread 09-10-2008, 05:18 PM
Gregory Dowling Gregory Dowling is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Venice, Italy
Posts: 2,399
Post

George Szirtes is another interesting example. He came to England from Hungary at the age of eight and he still speaks English with a slight foreign accent. I suppose you could say that it's a case of the second language becoming the first language. I wonder at what age that stops being possible. As Julie points out, it happened with Charles Simic and Ha Jin (whom I don't know) in their teens.
Reply With Quote